Climate Change
This gas is the most abundant greenhouse gas and is produced by humans.
What is carbon dioxide?
This common lunch item takes hundreds of years to break down in landfills
What is a plastic bottle?
Which renewable energy source relies on wind?
What is a wind turbine?
Where should paper scraps be thrown?
What is recycling?
What is a community of living things and their environment working together
What is an ecosystem?
The rising average global temperature leads to more frequent and intense storms, droughts, and heatwaves.
What is climate change?
Old or broken technology, like discarded phones and computers.
What is e-waste?
Clean energy uses sunlight to make power?
What is Solar Energy?
symbol of three chasing arrows represents can be recycled
What is recycling?
These are living things, like plants, that make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
The melting of glaciers contributes to rising sea levels. Glaciers are primarily found in these two regions of the Earth.
What are the polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)?
This turns food scraps and yard waste into rich dirt for plants
What is composting?
Energy that uses moving water to make electricity
What is Hydroelectric power?
What do the 3 R's stand for (with the environment)
What is Reuse Reduce Recycle?
This is the natural home where a plant or animal lives.
What is a habitat?
The increase of this gas in the atmosphere has caused ocean temperatures to rise and coral bleaching to become more frequent.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
Instead of rotting away, this material breaks into tiny pieces.
What is plastic?
Energy that comes from heat deep inside the Earth
What is Geothermal Energy?
This common material can be melted down and recycled over and over again without losing quality
What is glass? (or aluminum)
This shows the order of who eats who in nature to pass along energy
What is a food chain?
Scientists use this layer of ice in Antarctica to study Earth's past climate by analyzing trapped air bubbles.
What is an ice core?
This is a giant pile of floating plastic trash in the ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Energy fuel that comes from plants and animal waste.
What is biomass (biofuel)?
This happens when people put the wrong items into the recycling bin and ruin the batch
What is recycling contamination?
This is a very important animal that keeps its whole habitat in balance, like a sea otter.
What is a keystone species?